The French wine and liquor manufacturer : a practical guide and receipt book for the liquor merchant being a clear and comprehensive treatise on the manufacture and imitation of brandy, rum, gin and whiskey with practical observations and rules for the manufacture and management of all kinds of wine by mixing, boiling, and fermentation, as practiced in Europe including complete instructions for maufacturing champagne wine, and the most approved methods for making a variety of cordials, liqueurs, punch essences, bitters, and syrups ... / by John Rack.

  • Rack, John.
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[1868]
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Credit: The French wine and liquor manufacturer : a practical guide and receipt book for the liquor merchant being a clear and comprehensive treatise on the manufacture and imitation of brandy, rum, gin and whiskey with practical observations and rules for the manufacture and management of all kinds of wine by mixing, boiling, and fermentation, as practiced in Europe including complete instructions for maufacturing champagne wine, and the most approved methods for making a variety of cordials, liqueurs, punch essences, bitters, and syrups ... / by John Rack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man. To prevent it is simply impossible. With this fact in mind, the author thinks that he does good service in pointing out clearly how an imitation may be made that will be no more injurious than the original, and in demonstrating that it is more profitable to make factitious liquor which shall contain the actual ingredients of the genuine, than to make it from noxious mate- rials. It is well settled that, when an imitation of French Brandy is properly made, with pure alcohol for its basis, avoiding poi sons or poisonous compounds, and using only those materials found by analysis to exist in the liquor sought to be imitated, it is fully as wholesome as the liquor which it purports to be. Dr. Ure, the celebrated English chemist, from whom “Recipe No. 13” is derived, says that “ Brand}7, made after that formula, will af ford a spirit free from the deleterious drugs too of tv./ used to dis- guise and increase the intoxicating power of domestic t randies ; one which may he reckoned as wholesome as alcohol, in gv, shape, can ever be.”—[ Vide “Brandt,” in Ure’s Dictioi //t.] And Dr Cooley, the author of “ The Anatomy of Quacstryf says, “The only method to obtain perfectly pure Brandy either to take it direct from the bond-store, without allowing to enter a private cellar even for an hour, or to buy it of some known respectable party, and to pay a price that offers no inducement to dishonesty When this can not be done, domestic Brandy Lad better be at once purchased, by which money will be saved, and a more wholesome at tide obtainedThere is one thing moie in that connection. Dr. Cooley speaks of obtaining it “ direct from the bond-store.” Unfortunately, that is not a perfect guaranty Large quantities of corn whiskey are annually exported horn this county to